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00:00 This next picture is a perfect example of that. A guy like Cole Reagans from Kansas City. Now,
00:05 for me, from a wagering perspective, every time he goes, it's first threes and first fives. I want
00:10 to get in and get out until I know exactly what Kansas City is going to be. There's a lot of
00:14 potential there. A lot of potential. Bullpen situation, I think, still needs to be mired out.
00:19 It should be Will Smith's job, but as of now, it'll be listed as committee. But Reagans in
00:24 isolation has a lot of different ways that you can definitely make some money on him, Joe.
00:29 He does. And I think in season-long fantasy, he's a very interesting piece. As you said,
00:33 okay, how deep into games is he going to go? A lot of it has to do with efficiency
00:37 as well. And this could end up being one of the great follies of the Rangers organization. It's
00:42 very rare you see a pitcher get traded in season and blow up the way Cole Reagans did. And then
00:48 that team go on to, obviously, the Texas Rangers still win a World Series despite that. So are
00:53 they going to look back in a couple of years and go, well, we won the World Series, but we gave up
00:57 a potential ace to do it? I don't know. We're going to find out here what 2024 brings for Cole
01:03 Reagans. But the one thing 2023 certainly brought was a huge turnaround. When he became a starting
01:07 pitcher and went back to doing that for Kansas City, he was electric. You look at the 96 innings
01:12 that he pitched in total between the bullpen in Texas and between the rotation in Kansas City,
01:16 a 3-5-6 ERA, 113 strikeouts in 96 innings. He was electric, a 1.17 whip. Now projections have
01:24 him landing a little bit closer to almost a 4 ERA, which I understand, but it's that 35%
01:29 whiff rate that is really stunning. We're talking about a guy, a lefty with electric fastball,
01:36 electric stuff who certainly everybody's very excited about. Now, certain people in the
01:42 community are going to be even more excited in the fantasy baseball community, and they're going to
01:46 push his ADP continuously. But right now, it's still at a place where I think it's very comfortable
01:51 to jump in. And I think there's a scenario you could paint here where the Kansas City Royals are
01:55 a little bit more interesting than people realize. If some of these offseason investments work out,
01:59 and if some of these players that they have, like Pasquantino returning, if Michael Garcia
02:02 takes a step forward, like all of a sudden the Royals are a really intriguing team. But Reagans
02:07 at the top of this rotation is somebody I think you have to pay a lot of attention to. He was
02:13 just dominant last year at some point. Can he maintain that? We'll see. It's kind of a weird
02:18 thing, though, when you look at a pitcher that had some struggles in the minor leagues,
02:22 always had a lot of upside, then all of a sudden gets traded, and all of a sudden the light
02:26 switches. Maybe it's a little bit of some of the work he did in the offseason last year,
02:30 and then didn't get the right opportunities with the Rangers, and then said, hey, I'm going to show
02:33 you. And when he got that starting gig again, showed everybody how good he could be. Or maybe
02:38 it was the Royals staff there, the pitching coach and the team there getting the most out of him
02:45 as a young pitcher. Let's see it carry over in 2024. There's more risk here with Reagans
02:49 than Musgrove. I would take Musgrove every single time over Reagans because I think it's just safer,
02:54 and that's the kind of investment I want to make for season-long fantasy. But you're right, Matt,
02:58 this is a player to watch in 2024.